D : Not for me anymore

[Bruno Medeiros]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Lionello Lunesu wrote:
>>>> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>>>> news:eh0hgs$q8h$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>>>
>>>>> I'm happy to merge things in, but am reluctant to do so without 
>>>>> reviewing the diffs line by line.
>>>>
>>>> That's what we have now. I think it's time for you to let go of Phobos. 
>>>
>>> It's a bit more complicated than that, since Phobos includes a bunch 
>>> of compiler runtime code used by DMD.  This is also why GDC has a 
>>> separate GPhobos where the only substantive difference is this 
>>> runtime code.
>>>
>>>> There can't be a community lead standard library from which you take 
>>>> patches to include into DMD's distribution.
>>>
>>> Sure there can.
>>>
>>>  > We'd end up with another Ares.
>>>
>>> I think Ares isn't used widely for two (or perhaps three) reasons:
>>>
>>> * Visibility
>>> * Features
>>> * Endorsement (maybe)
>>>
>>
>> Speaking of Ares, there is something I've wanted to have clarified, 
>> which is apropos to this discussion:
>> My issue with Ares, is actually one of objective/purpose. The goal of 
>> Ares is stated to be an alternative to Phobos, but my question is how 
>> much of an alternative?
>> Is it meant as a general, encompassing alternative to Phobos, targeted 
>> to the general (D) programmer populace, or is it a specific 
>> alternative, where it aims to deal with some issues you (and some more 
>> coders) have with Phobos, but not go further than that? Because a 
>> standard lib is a wide and ranged collection of code, and all modules 
>> and aspects of it need to be well-considered.
> 
> It's original aim was to be a complete replacement, but a lack of 
> community participation changed the focus a bit.  Ares is now really 
> just a minimal framework on top of which a standard library may be 
> built.  And progress there has stalled a bit in the past few months 
> because I've been too busy with other things.  However, I do have some 
> redesign ideas in mind that should hopefully bear fruit before too 
> terribly long.  And these are intended both to address deficiencies in 
> the original design and to hopefully make for the beginnings of a better 
> library.
> 
> 
> Sean

That's good to hear. For an example of what I meant in the previous 
post, here's two things I think should be in the standard library, and 
for what I see they are not in Ares (as well as Phobos):
* the write/writeln unformating output functions.
(news://news.digitalmars.com:119/eg2aka$1ot9$1@digitaldaemon.com)
* extended path&file management functions, like Kramer's pathext:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/4363.html


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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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